1 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Titans Podcast. And we say it's 2 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: the Mac and three OTP because it's Mike Keith. It's 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Amy Wells. Hello Mike, it is Jim Wyatt, the Great 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: Jim Wyatt. I had to be here, and our head 5 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: coach from Titans Radio, Dave McGinnis, got so good to 6 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: be back here with it. It's good. I mean Mac 7 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: and three, I mean Mac at three. You know, Mac 8 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: and three. Mac and three feels like you know when 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 1: you when you when you're out there, you know, practicing, 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: and you've got everybody different coming in the huddle, and 11 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the first team comes back in 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: the huddle. Look at that, we got the first team 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: in huddle. I like being first team me too. I've 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: never been on the first team for anything. You are 15 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: made it all right. So let's jump right in OTA's 16 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: winding down, moving towards next week's mandatory minicamp. Amy Wells, 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with you one or two players that 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: you have been watching in practice this who have grabbed 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: your eye for one reason or another. You know, I've 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: been spending a lot of time watching the rookies and 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: two rookies in general, because you love to see how 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: the rookies assimilate to the big world out there with 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: all the veterans and everything. One guy who stood out 24 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: to me as a Mony hooker. He looks well above 25 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: his years in terms of he feels it feels like 26 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: he knows what's going on. He doesn't feel overwhelmed by 27 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: the stage. He's looked sharp. Coach McK and I have 28 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: watched him a couple different times and been impressed by 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: the way that he handles himself, the way that he 30 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: seems to be anticipating things and really picking up on 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: what's going on in the classroom. Because Coach mack is nodding, 32 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: why are you impressed with a Monty hooker so far? 33 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: She's spot on. I mean, she's hit it, you know 34 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: right away. I mean, and it's it's it started out 35 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: with the vetting during the draft process, when you watched 36 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: him play. This is a guy that's spatially aware. And 37 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: when you're specially aware because when when you when you 38 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: play in the secondary deep, you've got to be spatially aware. 39 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: You're in the most space and so you've got to understand, 40 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 1: you've got to understand geography around you. You have to 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,399 Speaker 1: understand how to condense distances. You have to understand how 42 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: to cover distances, and you also have to understand how 43 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 1: you can assimilate yourself into plays that take place on 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: both halves of the field. You can tell when somebody 45 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: is frantic, and then you can tell when somebody's composed. 46 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: I could see that on tape, and then Amy's one 47 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: hundred percent right. When you watch him in practice with 48 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: the first unit, you can see it. He just doesn't 49 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: look scared. And I'm not a coach. I can't see 50 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: the things that coach Mac is looking for. But you 51 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: know when someone looks overwhelmed or when they look a 52 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: little frantic, and he doesn't. He looks very comfortable in 53 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: what they're trying to do and in the process of learning. 54 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: So he has stood out to me just his level 55 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: of comfort this early. The other person who has stood 56 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: out to me, another rookie, is A J. Brown, And 57 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: I might have taken everybody because he took both from everybody. Think, yeah, 58 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: I think I took everybody's But he's a big dude. 59 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,119 Speaker 1: It's hard to not see him. I think he's commanded 60 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,239 Speaker 1: my attention just because he's one of the biggest things 61 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: moving around out there, you know. But it's also he's 62 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: made some some plays, and there have been some moments 63 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: I've looked at me like, oh, yeah, he's a rookie. 64 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: You know, he handles he's another person who handles himself. Well. 65 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: He is a big presence. It's been fun to watch 66 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: him in this offensive system. The way his body moves around, 67 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: the way that he looks. He's caught my eye, maybe 68 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: just because he's a giant human. He's caught everybody's eye. 69 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: I mean, he's so big. And he wears a shorts 70 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: up pa. Well, that's another thing I mention. He's wearing 71 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: the sort of the nineteen eighties look in the shorts. 72 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 1: Amy Wells is so unhappy about this lot. It upsets me, 73 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: and I was trying to only say nice things because 74 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: it felt like the nice portion of the podcast was 75 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: was a nice portion of Yeah, but you know what, 76 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: this bugs me to no end. If you are given shorts, 77 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: there is no reason for you to cut the bottoms 78 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: of them off to make them short. He's a professional 79 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: football player. He can do whatever he wants to do. 80 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,559 Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't want to see your man 81 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: thighs out there running around. I am not interested in that. 82 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: Keep your shorts at a respectable length and let's play 83 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: some football. Amy. Oh, it drives me crazy, Amy, I 84 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,640 Speaker 1: know we have it very seldom the mac in three. 85 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: Can we kind of keep it to the positive? They 86 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: brought it up and they asked me about is really 87 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: for the pleasure? Well, fine, let's practice with our clothes on. 88 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: He's got He's not enough that I appreciated legs like that. 89 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: I would show him off all the time. This guy 90 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: is is so in shape it's unbelievable he is. I mean, yeah, 91 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: that's why I brought it up, because they look like 92 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: linebacker legs and they're you know, they're like the Larry 93 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 1: Bird John Walker Leck in the day. Yeah, and you're 94 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: still in my life. I wouldn't wear cargo shorts if 95 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: I had shorts like that, other than cargo shorts being 96 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: in style always, I would wear shorter swords if I 97 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 1: had legs to show off. But I don't. He does, 98 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,400 Speaker 1: but he does get your attention. I mean from a 99 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: physical standpoint, his legs are the size of Sean Evans, 100 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: who you know this kind of a line built. Yes. So, 101 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: But the two guys that caught my eye. One of 102 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: them a newcomer, one of them's been around here for 103 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: a while. Adam Humphrey's obviously one of the free agent 104 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: editions who has fit in just perfectly, got quick feet. 105 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: I watched him work on the releases today and you 106 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: can see how he gets open in the tight spaces 107 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: because he's able to get past his guy in just 108 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: a snap. He catches everything that comes his way. Made 109 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: a great catch in the in the front corner of 110 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: the end zone today where he's very well defended. He's 111 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: one of those guys who I've observed kind of showing 112 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: some of the younger guys the way. I think he's 113 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: been a great addition, and none of the guy who's 114 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: been around here for a while. David Fell and get 115 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: your attention. We've seen him before and we've seen him 116 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: he's kind of a jack of old trades type of guys. 117 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: We've talked about him being bigger because he's put on 118 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: some weight. Talked him after practice today, sixteen to eighteen 119 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: pounds heavier, two thirty five year Yeah, he didn't give 120 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: this specific weight, but he says sixteen to eighteen heavier 121 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: than what he was listed at and right now on 122 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: the he's listed two twenty four, so he's over too. 123 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: I think I heard two thirty five at some point. 124 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: It sounds like he's north of that. Well. I mean 125 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: he if he wanted to wear his shorts shorter, he 126 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: could with his absolutely could not. Well he could, no, Yes, 127 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: he could be because he is in some shape that's strong. 128 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: It's not like he looks like he's put on the 129 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: weight and he's out of shape. And I think that's 130 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: part of his challenge is to put on that weight 131 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: and then to be able to keep yourself in good 132 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: condition throughout that. So I think he knows that the 133 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,159 Speaker 1: more you can do, the better off you are. And 134 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 1: what that's playing on special teams or what that's playing 135 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: it if you needed a running back that's playing at 136 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: full back, if you're asked to do that, and Mike 137 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: very well to talk about. He's the type of guy 138 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: that whatever they've asked him to do, he's done, and 139 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 1: that's going to put him in a good position. I 140 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: think when he's fighting for a roster spot how to 141 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: get too good once Fluellen has been impressive. The hump 142 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: freeze addition, you can just see it in the overall offense. 143 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: You can see it in Marcus Mariota, you could see 144 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: it in Corey Davis. You could see it in the 145 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: tight ends. There's another guy who's always open, and so 146 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: it opens things up for other people. No, I mean, 147 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: that's exactly why he was brought in here and especially 148 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: this day and asian the National Football League, when the 149 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: game has expanded in the middle of the field, the 150 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: middle of the field is everybody. It's up for grabs 151 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: now in the National Football League. When I first got 152 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: into the league, you used to could control the middle 153 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: of the field with violence. I mean defensively. I mean, 154 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: let's just put it out there. You could control it 155 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: by hitting them. I mean, that's what kept a lot 156 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: of these inside crossing routes, kept it to a minimum 157 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: because it was dangerous to go in there because of 158 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: what you could do. And plus you could impede a 159 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: lot of guys that were closer to the ball off 160 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: the light and scrimmage because you could jam them. You 161 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: could jam them and keep him in control. Now you 162 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 1: can't touch him. You can't touch him when they get 163 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: off the line, you know, other than five yards passed, 164 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: and you can't hit them downfield. And so that makes 165 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 1: a huge difference. So if you have guys that can 166 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: work that area of the football field, the middle of 167 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: the field, and be able to run option routes, feel pressure, 168 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: work away from pressure, and get open, it generates more offense. 169 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: It opens everything up, and you're one hundred percent right. 170 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 1: You get guys that can do that, that have a 171 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: feel for doing that. This tight ends and slot receivers 172 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: that can do that. Now the National Football League, they're 173 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: at a premium. He's got that Ricky Bobby, that shaking bake. 174 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: I mean he does. I mean you watch him and 175 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: he's just open and you're sitting here going how did 176 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 1: that happen? Again? And Mariotas seems to have radar for 177 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: him already, seems to know where he is all the time. 178 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: They missed a pass earlier in the week, and it 179 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: was so unusual because you're like, if they haven't missed 180 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: at all, and it was like the route, maybe he 181 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: cut the route off a little bit, or Marcus through 182 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: the ball just a little too for but it's just 183 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: something you have not seen. Well, look, and that's a 184 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: great thing. I was defensing. You know, Bill Walsh when 185 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 1: he first put that West Coast offense in that was 186 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: an entirely different thing because you had cut splits, you 187 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: had wide receivers coming in motion, you were running pick routes, 188 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: shorter pick routes. You were throwing short passes as runs 189 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: as a part of your first down run game. This 190 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: is the expansion now in the National Football League. The 191 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: middle of the field the middle of the field, and 192 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: you have to have guys that understand how to get open, 193 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: how to also run, and a lot of these guys 194 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: have to be able to run the routes after the 195 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: ball is snap and read the coverage after the ball 196 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: is snap, and the quarterbacks and the receivers in those areas, 197 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: they have to be on the same page because the 198 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: route is not just called and this is what you run. 199 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: You run the route depending on the type of leverage 200 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: and pressure you get after the ball is snap. All right, Coachmack, 201 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: who are your one to two players that you have 202 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: been most interested in during OTAs? Now? I started OTA's 203 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: watching Rashaan Evans because this is a huge year for him. 204 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: This is the same way that I watched Jayon Brown 205 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: last year. I wanted to see, you know what, type 206 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: of progression And I'm always gonna. I'm always going to 207 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: forfeit to the linebackers because that's where I cut my 208 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: teeth in this league. But I know how important it 209 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: is now dovetailing off of what we talked about the 210 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:23,960 Speaker 1: middle of the field, well, these are the guys that 211 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: have to take care of those types of things. They're 212 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: the guys that are put in charge of this, and 213 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 1: I was very I wanted to watch him to see 214 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: the development that he had made, because we saw him 215 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: progress from the end of the season when he was 216 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: in there game by game by game. He missed this 217 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: critical part last year. This is a part of his 218 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: development that he would never get back because of what 219 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: he missed last year. I wanted to see where he 220 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,200 Speaker 1: was going to take what he had learned and the 221 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: steps that he was going to take forward. I go 222 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: out there. I get out there early. For every one 223 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: of these things. I like to watch walkthroughs. I want 224 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 1: to watch walk throughs because walkthroughs tell you what they've 225 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: worked on, what they've all that day. I want to listen. 226 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,400 Speaker 1: I want to listen to what their instruction is and 227 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: then watch him take it to nine on seven and 228 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: then I watch him take it to seven on seven. 229 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 1: Then watch it take it to team and see how 230 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: he has been able to pick that up and translate 231 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: it to the field. I like what I'm seeing there. 232 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: The other guy I wanted to see was Roger Saffold, 233 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: because Roger Saffold, to me, you know, everybody's going to 234 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 1: talk about Humphries and and you know, and he's and 235 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 1: the additions that John Robinson made out a free agency 236 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: were large. Roger Saffold may be the biggest one because 237 00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: of the impact that he can have in the importance 238 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: of being able to pair him with Taylor l One 239 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: on that side. Here's what's important. Now, what you can do. 240 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: You know, whether you know whether whether it's it's Pam Field, 241 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: it's playing the other guard, whether it's going to be 242 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: Nate Davis, the young kid that finally moves in there. Now, 243 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: if you've got if you've got one side of your 244 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: offensive line that you don't have to worry about turning 245 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: protection to that you don't have to worry about scheming 246 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 1: things up to be able to protect on that side, 247 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,719 Speaker 1: it helps you so much. It helps your center from 248 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: there over to the right. But I wanted to see 249 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: how I know what Roger Saffold is. I've coached Roger Saffold, 250 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: I've been on a team with him, and I wanted 251 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: to see how he was going to incorporate into this 252 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: and I wanted to see his work ethic that it 253 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: was the same guy that I remembered leaving with the Rams. 254 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: It's exactly the same. Those are the two I've watched 255 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: for those reasons. My two are Brent Urban in the 256 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: defensive line, six seven three hundred pounds coming from Baltimore. 257 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: It seems like over the years Baltimore has had any 258 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: number of defensive linemen who just take up space and 259 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 1: cause problems. I don't know that Brent Urban is gonna 260 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: have big numbers, but I think Brent Urban is going 261 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: to be a big pain to opposing offensive lines and 262 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: in watching people try to block him out here and 263 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: granted it's not pads, but it's like, where do you 264 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: grab him? His arms are long again, six seven three 265 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: hundred it's Ropati PITOA two, only in a more athletic fashion. 266 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: Titans haven't had a guy like that, and I've just 267 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,079 Speaker 1: been impressed watching his work so far. No, and that's 268 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: a great point, but look, Dean pas these are the 269 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: type of guys in five techniques, which is what he's playing. 270 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: These are the type of guys that thrive in his 271 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: defense because he does enough things defensively to not only 272 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: normally when you've got a five technique, he's a space eater. Okay, 273 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: he's a space eater. The five technique in your shade, 274 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: who's between the guard and the tackle, away from your 275 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: three technique, who's on the outside shoulder, usually to a 276 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: tight inside. Those guys are space eaters. But what Dean 277 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,320 Speaker 1: does with the way he deploys some of his fronts 278 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: and the way you'll see him using five and six 279 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: man fronts to get everybody covered up front, you know, 280 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: you give those guys playing five technique in shades in 281 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: his defense, in his schemes, a chance to also be disruptors. 282 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: And that's what this guy is. I agree with you. 283 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 1: My other one is Taja Sharpe. We've talked about every 284 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: other receiver in this offseason. We've talked about Corey dave Us, 285 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: We've talked about Adam Humphries, We've talked about AJ Brown, 286 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: We've talked about t One Taylor, We've talked about Anthony Ratliffe, 287 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: Williams and other young guys who have shown up at 288 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: different points. TYJ. Sharp keeps making plays out here. He's 289 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: been very good. Has several touchdown catches today and some 290 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: of the some of the goal line drills talk to 291 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: him after practice. And obviously, when you've got people coming 292 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: in the building, you know and am Adam Humphries and A. J. 293 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: Brown that are play your position and make the competition tougher, 294 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: you've got a rise to the occasion. He knows that him. 295 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: He's been around here now, this is fourth offseason with 296 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: the team, and you know he's a pro. He continues 297 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: to work hard. I think he's I'm with you. I 298 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: think he's one of the guys that has consistently been 299 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: good from the start of OTA. He's up until OTA 300 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: number eight. All right, So let me ask you about OTAs, 301 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: and I want to direct this to coach Macows. Listening 302 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: to a national radio show this weekend and a commentator 303 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: who's very well respected said something that a lot of 304 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: people says, well, you really can't see much in OTAs 305 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: or figure out much in OTAs because they're not wearing pads. 306 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: I think that's a common thought. So let me ask 307 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: you a two part question. As in regards to that, 308 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: is it true? You really can't see much in OTAs 309 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: because they're not wearing pads. And the second part of that, 310 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: Coach Mac, is what are the most important things they're 311 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: getting done right now as you watch practice? Well, that 312 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: statement is true if you don't know what you're looking at, well, 313 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: and a lot of it. But I'm saying, but a 314 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: lot of us don't. And that's exactly, and don't you 315 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: know what you're looking at? But it's and that's that's 316 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: that's an easy blanket to say that. But these this 317 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: is so important, especially now with the CBA, when your 318 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: time in the off season is cut so short. This 319 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: time on the field is precious because they've got three 320 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 1: phases of the off season. This is phase three where 321 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: you can actually get timing offense against defense. And look 322 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 1: the way the National Football League is run nowadays, you 323 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: don't practice in pads very much anyway anymore. You've got 324 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: fourteen times during this season that you're allowed to practice 325 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: in pads. You have to learn to practice without pads, 326 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: and so they are everything that they do they are 327 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: doing full speed now and so you have to know 328 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: what to look for. Now if you just want to 329 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: talk about, you know, running, running in and finding out 330 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: if somebody can really fully full speed go and tackle, 331 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: or somebody can really full speed rush or pass, or 332 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 1: somebody can really stop a bull rush. You know you're 333 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: not going to see that. That will come in training 334 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: camp when you put the pads on, But this time 335 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: is extremely, extremely valuable if you know what you're looking at. 336 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: The first thing you've got to look at is you 337 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: got to learn how to watch practice. If you're if 338 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: you're just going out there, you know to to just 339 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: watch everybody run around and try to look at everything 340 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: at once. You're seeing nothing. Okay, you need to go 341 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: out there with the purpose you need to You need 342 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: to need to concentrate on one position, group probably at 343 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: a time. If you're going out there, watch them from 344 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: walk through to individual to all the way through. Watch 345 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: what they're implementing. See if what they're implementing is run 346 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: smoothly as a team. When you've got a new play 347 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,719 Speaker 1: caller like we have here now on offense, look at 348 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: how many unscripted periods they have. Watch how clean substitutions 349 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: are from the sideline. You can watch a lot of 350 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,360 Speaker 1: things timing. If you know what you're looking at. So 351 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: my answer to that would be it's probably a true 352 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:24,719 Speaker 1: statement if you don't know what you're looking at. If 353 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: you know what you're looking at, there's so much out 354 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: there to watch. That's why you got to watch tape 355 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: when you're done. Amy Wells, Jim White, this question for 356 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: you feedback on Arthur Smith. What are you seeing and 357 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: what are you hearing from the people around this team? Amy, 358 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: you start, you know, what I've noticed is the way 359 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: that the offense is utilizing every possible second to build 360 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: that chemistry and to start learning from Arthur Smith. It's 361 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 1: we all make jokes about how special Teams is kind 362 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: of a hard period to get through, but right now 363 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: it's really not. Because while Special Teams practice is happening 364 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: on one field, the offense is working and they're walking 365 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: through whatever they've installed that day. They're going through substitutions 366 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: in the way that that's going to work. We're really 367 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,920 Speaker 1: getting a chance to watch Arthur Smith as a teacher 368 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: and kind of see up close the way that he 369 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: is going to run and the way that he's trying 370 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: to establish himself with this offense. I could stand on 371 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: the sidelines and listen to that man teach forever. He's 372 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: the way that he speaks, the way that he interacts 373 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 1: with the guys, you can tell that they trust him 374 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: and that the credibility's already established so they can just 375 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: start from that foundation and continue to learn. So that's 376 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: been really exciting for me to watch, and it makes 377 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: me really excited about this offense. Well, I mean, he's 378 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: so comfortable. I mean, I think that's a big thing 379 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 1: is when you you know, he's obviously he's been around 380 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: here for a while, worked in different roles, but when 381 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 1: you get bumped up to offensive coordinator, to a position 382 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: like that, obviously you've got more on your plate. And 383 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,479 Speaker 1: he hasn't skipped a beat. I mean, just watching him 384 00:18:57,480 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: in Proxice, he looks like he's the same guy who's 385 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: coaching ends and he's just doing it with a much 386 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: bigger canvas to work on. Players respect him, and you 387 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 1: can tell by the way they talk. You can tell 388 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: by the way they you know, anytime a question about 389 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,879 Speaker 1: him is brought up, and even d Peace, i mean 390 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: was asked last week about author Smith, he just raved 391 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: about him. And he's a guy who has not called 392 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: a game as an offensive coordinator yet. He's going to 393 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: go through some growing pains, I'm sure once we start 394 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: playing games, and as he has, as he's the guy 395 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: that's making the decisions. But based on everything I've seen, 396 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 1: everything I've heard from people, I've got complete confidence that 397 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: he's not going to be phased once that part of 398 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: it starts either, all right for all, Starting with coach Mac, 399 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: anything you see different in Mike Vrabel in year two 400 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: on the practice field, No, absolutely, I mean I've experienced 401 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: exactly what he went through. When you become a head coach, 402 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: I mean it's there is no manual that you they 403 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: put on your desk that says here's page one through 404 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: two thousand that this is what you follow and this 405 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: is how you become a head coach. It's not there. 406 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: You have to do a lot of it by feel, 407 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: and you have to do a lot of it. You 408 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: have to live it. You have to live it. And look, 409 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 1: he stepped into this building. He didn't know very many 410 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: people in this building when he came into this building. 411 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: Part of being a head coach is knowing your building, 412 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: knowing your people, know your support staff. No, just there's 413 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: so many things that happen as a head coach, when 414 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: people come knock on your door, it's very seldom are 415 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: they knocking to say, hey, braves, just want to tell 416 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: you're doing a hell of a job. That's not when 417 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: you get knocks on doors. As a head coach, there's 418 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: always something that you have to take care of. The 419 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: longer you're able to do it the best, the better 420 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: you're able to start compartmentalize those types of things time allocation. 421 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: But you can He's always been very comfortable in his 422 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 1: skin on the field. That's who he is, that's what 423 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: he is. But you can tell now once you go 424 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: through a year of it. I experienced it myself that 425 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: second year. When you step back out of them grass, 426 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: you go, Okay, I've got my handle on this. I 427 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: know the people I can trust in the building to 428 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: do this, this and this for me. So now I'm 429 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: able to concentrate a little more on here. It's just 430 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: it's a confidence factor that everybody goes through after you 431 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: have to experience it, and you have to go through 432 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: all of the bumps in the road your first year, 433 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: your second year, you're different. I can see it in him. Yeah, 434 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,440 Speaker 1: And as much as he is different a lot of ways, 435 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: he's he's the same on the practice field as far 436 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: as when he's frustrated and when things aren't going right, 437 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 1: he'll stop practice and he'll move on to something else 438 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,719 Speaker 1: and get guys in a drill that will do it right. 439 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: I don't care if it's the first team offense or 440 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: the third team offense, and he's very much in control, 441 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: whether it's in the press pressors after practice or during 442 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: the middle of practice. I mean, obviously the expectation is 443 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: higher this year, and I don't know who started the 444 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: good the great mantra, but he's certainly in a position 445 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: to do so because he's been involved and played on 446 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: teams that have been great, and he still is holding 447 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,320 Speaker 1: players very accountable and not letting anything slide. But he 448 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: definitely looks like a coach who's in the second year 449 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: in a scheme. You know, practice seems to be moving faster, 450 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: Guys seem to be getting to the places they need 451 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: to be, and things are happening just faster. It feels 452 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: more like training camp style practices than it does OTA 453 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,399 Speaker 1: style practices. Last year, we were seeing a lot of 454 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: install We were seeing a lot of stopping and walking 455 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: through things and really mapping out where everybody needs to be. 456 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: We're rolling now. We're moving from this type of drill 457 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: to this period to that period. Everything feels a little 458 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: bit more cohesive and a little bit faster, which says 459 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: to me that he's realizing that there's a baseline with 460 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: this team. They know what the expectations are, they know 461 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: they have a familiarity with what they're doing, both from 462 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: a football standpoint and just from a way that practices 463 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: and things like that are going to roll. It feels 464 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: like we're building upon that now. We're starting to go faster, 465 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: we're starting to go deeper, and we're doing that a 466 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Let me build on what you're saying 467 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: and see if I'm sort of topping it off. This morning, 468 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: he was hosting his coaching clinic, and so you have 469 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: hundreds of high school coaches from all over the state 470 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: here and they're thrilled to be at Saint Thomas Sports Park. 471 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 1: They're thrilled to be hearing a head coach. As Mike 472 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: was giving his presentation, it was so crisp, it was 473 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: so on point, it was so good. And then he 474 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: introduced Jeremy Pruett, Tennessee's head coach who was here and 475 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: his introduction was just so on, and I thought to myself, 476 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: he's just better. He's just better than he was a 477 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: year ago. And then I watched him in practice, listened 478 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 1: to him with the media after practice, and so as 479 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: I got ready to throw out this question here on 480 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: the OTP, I thought, the guy in year two has 481 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: just taken it up a notch. I don't know that 482 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: I want to say he's gone from good to great yet, 483 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: because I'm afraid he'll grab me for saying that, because 484 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: it's just what June whatever, I want him to grab you. Actually, no, no, no, 485 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: but you, But that's what that's what I'm saying. I 486 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 1: mean it was. I think you could see his talent 487 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: last year. He's a talented young man. I mean he 488 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: is just a he's a gifted person in a lot 489 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 1: of different ways. But it's almost like in tennis. He 490 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,400 Speaker 1: can get the first serve in now, whereas last year 491 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: he was having to rely on the second serve a lot. 492 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: Now he's he's getting that first serve in more and more. 493 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: There's a level of comfort that you can clearly see 494 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: he's able to take command of the room around him, 495 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: whatever situation he's in a little bit more clearly and 496 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: a little bit faster, just because he's comfortable. Right, Guys, 497 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: I've lived I've lived it. I mean, you do, and 498 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: it's you know. And but I'll say this, there are 499 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 1: some coaches that never take that next. No, he definitely Look, 500 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: this guy's a ball coach. I mean, I love of 501 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: what he does, but I also like the way that 502 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: he commands a lot of things other than just on 503 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: the field. And I will see just how much he 504 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: changes when the season starts. I think the biggest question 505 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: I get this all the time is will he be 506 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: the gunslinger? Will he be the aggressive coach that he 507 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,399 Speaker 1: was last season, whether it's going forward on fourth down 508 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: or making some of the calls he made where it 509 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: was a tough call and he always leaned on the 510 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 1: aggressive side. And I'll be curious to say how he 511 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: handles some of that stuff in year two. All Right, 512 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: So let's talk about something that's kind of interesting. Cleveland 513 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: is in the media everywhere. Everybody's talking about the Cleveland Browns. 514 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: Titan's open with the Cleveland Browns. Browns have a new 515 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: head coach, new offensive coordinator, new defensive coordinator, and I 516 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 1: wonder as teams prepare for week one. Once you get 517 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: the schedule, you know you have four months to get 518 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: ready for the first game of the season, and then 519 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,199 Speaker 1: you have four days essentially to get ready for the 520 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: next for week two. But in week one, I want 521 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: to go around the room on a start with Jim. 522 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 1: Who has the advantage with the incredible amount of preparation 523 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,439 Speaker 1: time entering week one? Cleveland or Tennessee. I think the 524 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 1: Titans do because it's the second year under Mike Vrabel 525 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: and you know, a lot of the key players returning. 526 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: I think with Cleveland, obviously they've made some great editions 527 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: this offseason, some marquee players, some players that have the 528 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: fan basic site didn't really have raised their expectations. But 529 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: all that has to come together, you know, in a 530 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,800 Speaker 1: very short time. When I saw the schedule come out, 531 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: I thought, good that this team's catching them in week 532 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: one instead of week ten when they start to put 533 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,439 Speaker 1: it together. Assuming they do put it together. But I 534 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: think even with a new offensive coordining, I think the 535 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 1: system obviously going to stay the same, close to the 536 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: same one offense system returns on defense with Dean Peace, 537 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,400 Speaker 1: I think the Titans have the advantage going into Week 538 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,160 Speaker 1: one just because you've got so many moving parts in Cleveland. Yeah, 539 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: First of all, the team that has the most advantage 540 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: in the opener is the team that understands how to 541 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: prepare for an opener. All right, this team understands how 542 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: to prepare for an opener. The thing is, you know, 543 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: with Freddie Kitchens as the head coach, you've got you've 544 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: got eight weeks of Freddie Kitchens calling plays. You know 545 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: when they made the change halfway through the season. We 546 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: know what Steve Wilkes defense is. It's gonna be Ron 547 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: Rivera San Diego all the way through you know, Chicago 548 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: through Carolina. You know what that is. You know what 549 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: that is going to be. To me, the main thing, 550 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: the main thing about it is, and I think Jim 551 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: has hit on it, it's how prepared you are to 552 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 1: be able to handle your own stuff. First. And then, 553 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: believe me, they've already started. Both these teams have started 554 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: on each other. Sure, they started on each other right now. 555 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: But the amount of film, Okay, Cleveland's got more film 556 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: on what the Titans do than the Titans have film 557 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,959 Speaker 1: on what Cleveland does. But I promise you, when you 558 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: have somebody new coming in as a head coach as coordinators, 559 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 1: and you're opening with them, you're going to go back 560 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: in there and look at it too. So the team 561 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 1: that prepares the best is the team that has the advantage. 562 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: I would go with this group here. First, I agree 563 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. I think that they have the advantage because 564 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: they have the ability to prepare because they've had to 565 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: do it before. I think Mac made an interesting point 566 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: with the film, and obviously Cleveland is going to have 567 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: an idea of what the Tennessee Titans do and what 568 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 1: their strengths are on both sides of the ball. But 569 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,159 Speaker 1: we have the advantage of knowing how to execute that 570 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: and having already built some of those relationships and have 571 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: that chemistry established, whereas the Browns are a whole bunch 572 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: of brand new pieces, parts that are shiny and new 573 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: and lovely. But do they all work together in the 574 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: rhythm that you have to have. You don't necessarily get 575 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: that on week one. Okay, let me ask you this, coach, Mac. 576 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: Outside of it being mandatory, next week is the Mini camp, 577 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: and so I'm wondering what is different about the Mini 578 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 1: camp in terms of what you're trying to get done 579 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: as compared to an ota they're putting they're putting the 580 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 1: topper on. A lot of their installation is what they'll 581 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: do in this next mini camp. And what we used 582 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,360 Speaker 1: to do some mic We used to try to emulate 583 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: a day in the season a little bit more than 584 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: you're doing now, you know, you know, except you know, 585 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: in a in a mini camp, you're you're trying to 586 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: make it to ramp it up a little bit more 587 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: as far as the way the day is going to 588 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: be executed once you start the season. And the reason 589 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: that we thought that was a good idea to do 590 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: that your vents that are coming back, they understand what 591 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 1: the day's going to be like. Your new people that 592 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: are coming in, even from another squad, they don't quite 593 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: know what your day is like. Yet once you start 594 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: to get prepared and the rookies have gotten no clue 595 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: you know what a real day in the week of 596 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 1: preparation is going to be. You know, some of these guys, 597 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: these rookies are feeling pretty good now because they've gotten 598 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: a little bit comfortable, but you know, they need to 599 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 1: start understanding. They don't know whether their foot or horseback 600 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: yet when this stuff starts for real, and so That's 601 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: what we used to try to do, was to ramp 602 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: up the preparation a little bit, to emulate late a 603 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: little bit of what you would do during the season. 604 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: A couple other things. Okay, you ready, Yeah, I'm sorry. 605 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the first crack at this. Okay, 606 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Cuts defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. Yep, they signed 607 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: in Dominican sue. Yep, they actually gave him Dominican sue 608 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:21,400 Speaker 1: Jerald McCoy's number. That's awkward. Well, now, Jerald McCoy denies 609 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 1: that that was a factor in him signing with Carolina. 610 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,600 Speaker 1: But here's what I'm wondering. Did Jerald McCoy sign with 611 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: Carolina in large part because he wants to play Tampa 612 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: Bay twice a year? Yes? Or no? I hate to 613 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: say yes because it kind of feels a little bit petty, 614 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: but absolutely like, there's no way that that didn't factor 615 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: into all of the decisions that he was being that 616 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: he was making at that time. Oh yeah, guys love 617 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: playing their former teams. You know, First of all, you 618 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: don't know whether anybody else was willing to give him 619 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: the money. That's true that he got that. I haven't 620 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: seen the money. The deal, I mean, it's four million 621 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: and guaranteed. He can make as much as ten and 622 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: a half million guaranteed this year. It's not an incredible deal. 623 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: It's certainly not what he had in terms of the number. 624 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: It looks comparable. But how he's got to get there. 625 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: He's got to earn the majority of it. So to me, Mike, 626 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: to me, I mean, I've been through free agency for 627 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: thirty four years. You can get through a lot of 628 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: ifs and butts and candy and nuts. But at the 629 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,040 Speaker 1: end of the day, George Washington decides a lot of it, 630 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:28,959 Speaker 1: you know. And that to me, I don't know if 631 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: he was going to get that money anywhere else that 632 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: he got. They gave him a pretty good deal as 633 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: far as the guaranteed part of it. And now a 634 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: good afterthought of it was he does get to go 635 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: after him twice a year. That don't ever think that 636 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: doesn't count some for coaches and players in this league. 637 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: All right, So I got a couple here for you, 638 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: Jim Wide, Are you ready? I am? All right? So, 639 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: who has the easiest schedule in the NFL this season 640 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: for the third year in a row. The New England 641 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 1: Patriots New England Patriots do, which is understand how that happens, 642 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: because it's not they play in the AFCAST. That's got 643 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: to be only expert. Because you're the first place team 644 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: has to play the first place teams. That's how part 645 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: of the schedule works. You as your common opponents are 646 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: at least as you match up with other teams the league, 647 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: you gotta take on the number one. But the AFC 648 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: East with the Buffalos and the Jets and the Dolphins 649 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: is what kind of softens it up. It's been an 650 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: untalked about fact of their dynasty is that Belichick can 651 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: almost play it like a basketball season because he knows 652 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,560 Speaker 1: in the end he's gonna get eleven wins based on 653 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: the fact that he's gonna win five of six in 654 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 1: his own division every ye that is one hundred percent true. 655 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: And I see Amy raising her hand. Amy wants to speak, Oh, 656 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: and I'll let her speak. It's her, it's her show. 657 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: But Mike's one hundred percent right. I mean, it's it's 658 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 1: not hard to understand. FC stinks, you know, East, the 659 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,400 Speaker 1: East stinks, AFC East stinks. Those and those teams can't 660 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 1: get out of their own way, you know, And and 661 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: one of them doesn't even have a general manager right now. 662 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: They can't get out of their own way. No, they 663 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: let they let a guy spend two hundred and fifty 664 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 1: million and then fired him. So that's how that's how 665 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: dialed in they are. Okay, so and and Belichick that 666 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: the New England Patriots are probably the most dialed in 667 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: organization football preparation. Why in the league. That doesn't surprise 668 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,480 Speaker 1: me at all. So I'll tell you what. We should 669 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: put an asterisk next to all of their Super Bowl 670 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: wins where they had an easy where they had an 671 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: easy schedule. Well, I mean, where they have six fifteen. 672 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: I mean it does help. I mean it doesn't. Yeah, 673 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: but I think the reason half a Super Bowl they've 674 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: been good and again they lost to the Dolphins on 675 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: would they end up calling that play? Uh where they 676 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: scored on the miracle play? Uh, the Dolphins scored the 677 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: miracle play to beat the Patriots. I'm forgetting Miami miracle, 678 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,000 Speaker 1: as simple as that. But the Titans have a Miami 679 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: miracle when you go five and eleven and fire your coach, Well, 680 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: they won the game, and that felt like a miracle. 681 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: Part of the way the Titans got to go from 682 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: good to great is yes, the Patriots have us off schedule, 683 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: but we can't forget that this team lost the Bills 684 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,759 Speaker 1: up there and lost the Dolphins. The opener really had 685 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,240 Speaker 1: to almost not a miracle finish to beat the Jets, 686 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: but it certainly had to come back to win that game. 687 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,839 Speaker 1: So this team has got to figure out a way 688 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,720 Speaker 1: to do what the Patriots do, and that's beat those 689 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,399 Speaker 1: teams you're supposed to be And that's another fair point. 690 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: That's a really good point because in a league of parody, yes, sir, 691 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: the thing that you have to I mean, there are 692 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: a lot of great things that you can say about 693 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: the Patriots during this run, but they have done a 694 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,959 Speaker 1: better job of winning the games they're supposed to win, 695 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: far and away above every team in the league. You know, 696 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: they the games they're supposed to win, they generally win. 697 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: And it's been a problem for certain teams that and 698 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: it has been for the Titans in the nine and sevens. 699 00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 1: There have been some high moments and then there have 700 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: been some moments where you've gone, what was that, Yeah, 701 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,839 Speaker 1: you can't do that? Though, yeah you can't. You can't 702 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: lose those games. And I think, uh, you know, you'd 703 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 1: like to think that, you know, you're learning lessons and 704 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: it has happened before. I do think Rayble, we've talked 705 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: about him, and the perfectioniscy is he'll I think he'll 706 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: definitely second time around, will get guy's attention and not 707 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: let that happen. I think you're right. I think that's 708 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: going to be one of the best areas about him 709 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 1: is I think, and he talked about this with YouTube, 710 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: coach getting more consistent. Bottom was my point is the 711 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: Patriots or the model for consistency in this league. They 712 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: are a model for consistency. And consistency doesn't mean playing 713 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,719 Speaker 1: at a real high level all the time, and it 714 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,040 Speaker 1: doesn't mean bottoming out. You know, you can't there that. 715 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,280 Speaker 1: The Patriots are not a team that peaks and valleys. 716 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: They have never been, you know, since Belichick has been 717 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 1: there and since Brady's been the quarterback, they just never 718 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,760 Speaker 1: have been. And they've gone through a lot of changes. 719 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,800 Speaker 1: The other things that the Patriots know how to do, 720 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: they know how to work them insentory system, they know 721 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: how they Bill Belichick is probably one of the best 722 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,760 Speaker 1: in the league at knowing a player's value and releasing 723 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,320 Speaker 1: a player maybe right before they come to the tipping points. 724 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,279 Speaker 1: You very seldom see in salary cap problems. And you've 725 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,160 Speaker 1: got older veterans that at the end of their careers 726 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 1: they want to go to New England because they know 727 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: there's a chance that they're always going to get a 728 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: chance to play for the big one. They're in New England. 729 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: Like what Michael Bennett has done this year, well absolutely, 730 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: what Chris Long has done, you can just go down 731 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 1: the list and that, to me, it's hard to achieve 732 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: in this league. I'm a I'm a big time admirer 733 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,600 Speaker 1: of what they've done there. I know how hard it 734 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,560 Speaker 1: is to win on Sunday, but they do, from a 735 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: technical standpoint, face the easiest schedule in terms of opponent 736 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 1: win percentage from twenty eighteen for the third Street. Well, 737 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,320 Speaker 1: that's because the Jets and the Dolphins and the Bills 738 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: got no clue whatever. Whatever, That's what I have to say. 739 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,320 Speaker 1: All right, let's end with this. It's it's coming up again. 740 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: The Commission has done an interview that says the league 741 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 1: doesn't really need four preseason games. Many people think he 742 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 1: is laying the groundwork that in the next collective bargaining 743 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 1: agreement in two years that the owners want to move 744 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: to two preseason games in eighteen regular season games. That's 745 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,200 Speaker 1: what he wanted in twenty eleven, and the players torpedoed 746 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: it pretty quickly in the process. Jim Wyatt, are we 747 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: closer to eighteen and two in twenty twenty one? Yeah? 748 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I think players will torpo it again. I mean, 749 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,319 Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna think, if we're playing eighteen games, 750 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,239 Speaker 1: or we're putting our bodies on the line, then we 751 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: deserve to be paid. Let's say this, all right, let 752 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:47,000 Speaker 1: me stop you there. If you're the owners, can you 753 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: go back and say, guys, salary cap went up ten 754 00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 1: million a year during the course of the last CBA. 755 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,360 Speaker 1: If we go to this deal and you're getting fifty 756 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,400 Speaker 1: five percent of the national television revenue and suddenly we 757 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: can make more money, and if we add a seventh 758 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 1: team to the playoffs, we can make that even higher. 759 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: You're gonna make a lot more money to play eighteen games. 760 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: Is that the sales job they're gonna have to do? 761 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: I think it is. And I'm really, to be honest, 762 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,480 Speaker 1: I'm just kind of split on whether it's a good thing. 763 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: I like I think sixteen games. I mean, you look 764 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: at sometimes the list of guys on injured reserve, and 765 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: as the season goes on, it just continues to grow, 766 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 1: and just the battles and the way guys are beat 767 00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: up physically than the season. I think adding two more 768 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,719 Speaker 1: games is will make it tough. So as much as 769 00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:42,480 Speaker 1: I like to see real games compared to preseason games, 770 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:47,239 Speaker 1: I have to admit that I can understand the other 771 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,439 Speaker 1: side of it. I do think that's the sales pitch. 772 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's where you convince players. And 773 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,440 Speaker 1: we had Logan Ryan talking great detail after practice about 774 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: this today. You because what was supposed to be just 775 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 1: a press conference about the state of what he is 776 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,880 Speaker 1: and the secondary turned into conversation potential eighteen game schedule. 777 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,319 Speaker 1: He was pretty adamant about how you know you're gonna 778 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,960 Speaker 1: have to pay us for eighteen as well? That's the pitch, 779 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: but that will be a lively debate. Does it go 780 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,640 Speaker 1: anywhere this time around? Amy Wells, I don't know. I 781 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,279 Speaker 1: mean I read a lot about it before we did this, 782 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,399 Speaker 1: and I made a list of things that would be 783 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,839 Speaker 1: impacted in the event that they make the switch, So 784 00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: not only would pay have to be adjusted or there'd 785 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 1: have to be some sort of compensation there and the 786 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:37,080 Speaker 1: way that money is distributed and all that. But how 787 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 1: is training camp going to look then, because you're gonna 788 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 1: have to change the way that you're carrying guys on 789 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:46,040 Speaker 1: a roster. Really, training camp anymore, it's one practice a 790 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: day now. Well, but what I'm saying is you should 791 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,479 Speaker 1: call it August practice now. But training camp was two 792 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,200 Speaker 1: practices in pads for three hours, standing out in the heat, 793 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: and they had to walk uphill both of them together. 794 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,080 Speaker 1: I mean they can't, you know, except in Green Bay 795 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,279 Speaker 1: where they were were by, you know, they rode by. Yeah, 796 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,480 Speaker 1: but your many points go ahead, Well, but I mean realistically, 797 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,680 Speaker 1: you'll have to restructure when the cutdown period is and 798 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: how many guys you can keep on your roster and 799 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,920 Speaker 1: how long you can carry ninety or do well? I 800 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: mean the season. The season would go into January, right, 801 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 1: I mean, it would go well into January because the 802 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,400 Speaker 1: thing they're not going to do is they're not going 803 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: to move the start date back into August, which is 804 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,520 Speaker 1: why we don't play on Labor Day weekend anymore, because no, no, 805 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 1: the TV ratings, the TV ratings were so bad. Really, 806 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: oh absolutely, I don't know. The TV ratings were so 807 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,959 Speaker 1: bad during Labor Day weekend they pulled the ratings down 808 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,640 Speaker 1: for the whole season. And so finally somebody in the 809 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,919 Speaker 1: league office, what you know, the ratings weeks two through 810 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 1: seventeen or fantastic, and they're up seven percent. But because 811 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,880 Speaker 1: they're down twenty nine percent the weekend of Labor Day, 812 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,719 Speaker 1: we're down one percent for the year. What if we 813 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 1: just didn't play Labor Day weekend and the ratings went 814 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: back up, Because that's when I mean, in our part 815 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:14,800 Speaker 1: of the country, the kids are already back in school, 816 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 1: and but up north in Florida, in other major areas, 817 00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,880 Speaker 1: they still don't go back to school until after Labor 818 00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:27,440 Speaker 1: Day for weather concerns, vacation concerns such as that. And 819 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: so the HUD levels the amount of people watching television 820 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: about half during Labor Day weekend. Right, So that's why. 821 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,000 Speaker 1: And so you go into January, it's a Super Bowl, 822 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,399 Speaker 1: would be Valentine's Day roughly, right, But do you add 823 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,359 Speaker 1: another playoff, like another team to the playoffs? How does 824 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,360 Speaker 1: that whole thing change? Well, I think how that changes 825 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,000 Speaker 1: is that that means only one team would get a 826 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,160 Speaker 1: buy Yeah, so it doesn't. You wouldn't have to add 827 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,160 Speaker 1: another weekend, but you'd have to. And during a season, 828 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: you'd have two buyer weeks, right, you'd have to. That's 829 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,800 Speaker 1: the only way that you can avoid the people getting 830 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,680 Speaker 1: hurt thing or or do you adds or maybe you 831 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,200 Speaker 1: add roster? What do you think about this, coach? I mean, 832 00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 1: I've been through this discussion. I have. Yeah, you're the 833 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,960 Speaker 1: only one that's been in the room. Feel free to 834 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: chime in at anytime. And here's here's the deal. First 835 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 1: of all, you understand that that the four preseason games, 836 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,200 Speaker 1: you still sell tickets at full price. Okay, you still 837 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:30,320 Speaker 1: and players are paid during the preseason, not salary numbers. 838 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,400 Speaker 1: They're paid per dem. Okay, they're not paid their salary 839 00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 1: during the preseason. It's per dem. Their salary starts when 840 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,960 Speaker 1: the regular season starts. So clearly you're gonna you're gonna 841 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,759 Speaker 1: pay them eighteen weeks if you're gonna do this, But 842 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,839 Speaker 1: you've got to have to balance out because it's all 843 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,880 Speaker 1: about money. You're gonna have to balance out the revenue, Okay, 844 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,799 Speaker 1: that you're giving up for those two preseason games when 845 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 1: you're pulling in regular season ticket prices and paying out 846 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: training camp money. Okay, that's number one. Number two is 847 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 1: you go eighteen. If this is if this truly is 848 00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,759 Speaker 1: a CBA bargaining chip, then the players are going to 849 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: want more roster spots. They're gonna want more spots for rosters. 850 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,719 Speaker 1: And Amy's got a point to the other thing you want. 851 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,959 Speaker 1: You don't really care how far you push the game 852 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,080 Speaker 1: towards the super Bowl because as we all know that, 853 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,839 Speaker 1: they're all talking about now shortening the amount of time 854 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 1: from the end of the season to when the draft is. 855 00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,400 Speaker 1: The National Football League is trying to capture that whole calendar. Okay, 856 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,319 Speaker 1: And so if you push your super Bowl deeper, you've 857 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,400 Speaker 1: been able to do that. What you're gonna have to 858 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,120 Speaker 1: be able to do is come up with a way 859 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,040 Speaker 1: financially to be able to be sure there is no 860 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,879 Speaker 1: money lost because of those two preseason games that are 861 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,440 Speaker 1: full boat ticket wise, but you're only paying out this 862 00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,600 Speaker 1: for the eighteen and the added roster spots. She's got 863 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,359 Speaker 1: a point too, because I've been in the rooms when 864 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,840 Speaker 1: they've talked about this. They've also talked about with eighteen weeks, 865 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,600 Speaker 1: if you're taking two away from the preseason. You can 866 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,640 Speaker 1: also give everybody another open date. Okay, and that's something 867 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 1: that that they've talked about too heavy. It's going to 868 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,480 Speaker 1: be interesting. It's been discussed. Well, if if you don't 869 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:11,400 Speaker 1: make the roster, the fifty three man roster, then you 870 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,920 Speaker 1: don't get paid for the preseason basically because all of 871 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,920 Speaker 1: the money goes in, all of the ticket money from 872 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:20,520 Speaker 1: the ten home games of every team goes into the 873 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,720 Speaker 1: pile and is divided up as part of the salary cap. 874 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,440 Speaker 1: If you make the roster, then you get that money. 875 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,520 Speaker 1: If you're somebody who doesn't make the roster, then you 876 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,799 Speaker 1: don't see any of that. Now you've got paid per DM. 877 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,799 Speaker 1: You canaid that's that's it during training camp. Yeah, that's 878 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: that's it. But the TV revenue would be unbelievable that 879 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,799 Speaker 1: you could ad mean, you're you're adding eleven percent or 880 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,560 Speaker 1: you're adding nine percent, I guess, well, which is which 881 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,799 Speaker 1: is huge. But but but I know, I know from 882 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,439 Speaker 1: a coaching aspect of it, if you're gonna go two 883 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,239 Speaker 1: more weeks. And Jim's got a point as far as 884 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:59,000 Speaker 1: about the attrition rate of your football players, I mean, 885 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: no matter what you do, they still only got two legs, 886 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,840 Speaker 1: that's only got one body, and so you're gonna have 887 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,280 Speaker 1: to add numbers to your roster. And a part of this, too, 888 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,400 Speaker 1: I think, is people will say, why not sixteen in 889 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,400 Speaker 1: two and then then you take out the ticket money 890 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,680 Speaker 1: and the local revenue from the two preseason games you 891 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,320 Speaker 1: take away. He will never happen. It'll never happen because 892 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,279 Speaker 1: and there's some players. There have been times I've had 893 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,759 Speaker 1: discussions with former players who didn't understand that if you 894 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,000 Speaker 1: do that, you're giving up your part of that money. Like, well, 895 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,759 Speaker 1: we're not doing that. It's like, well, the owners sure 896 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,080 Speaker 1: are not going to do that. Would never happen. Now, 897 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,040 Speaker 1: I think this happens eventually. I don't think it happens 898 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:45,319 Speaker 1: anytime soon. Well, I think the commissioner's trying to about 899 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,080 Speaker 1: the commission It's not what the commissioner wants. Nobody cares, 900 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:49,839 Speaker 1: it's what the owners want. Well, but that's why he's 901 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,800 Speaker 1: doing it. Well, he's he's, he's he's he's being asked 902 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,839 Speaker 1: to push it. I'm sure. I think that's why he's 903 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,279 Speaker 1: being asked to push it. And because we're we're you know, 904 00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,480 Speaker 1: we're coming into a year before the next, the X Party. 905 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,160 Speaker 1: All of this stuff are going to be chips. You know, 906 00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,239 Speaker 1: I've lived through both work stoppages in this league. I've 907 00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,399 Speaker 1: been in this league long enough to have lived through 908 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:13,120 Speaker 1: both work stoppages. Nobody wants that, nobody. And things are good, 909 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,719 Speaker 1: right things are really good right now, and things and 910 00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 1: you know, I live through the strike in eighty seven 911 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,319 Speaker 1: with the spare Bears and all that stuff. I mean, 912 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,040 Speaker 1: I lived through that, okay, and it took a while 913 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 1: to be able to recover from that. This last lockout, 914 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,799 Speaker 1: it took a while to recover. But everybody seems to 915 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,719 Speaker 1: seems to have benefited. I don't think anybody wants that, 916 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:39,440 Speaker 1: but that's why they're starting on it. This early good conversation. Fun. Yes, 917 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 1: it's gonna We've got football right now. I don't know 918 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do in a couple weeks, take some vacation, 919 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,600 Speaker 1: maybe take a load off. Maybe maybe go to Europe 920 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,080 Speaker 1: or something. Maybe that sounds nice. Jim Wyatt, how do 921 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,719 Speaker 1: they follow you? On Twitter? Follow me on Twitter at 922 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,160 Speaker 1: j Wyatt's Sports, which is also my Instagram handle at 923 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:01,040 Speaker 1: Titan's Amy am i e. You can't spell Titans. I 924 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,719 Speaker 1: can't like the Pure Prairie League song, like that's the 925 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,520 Speaker 1: song I was named after. It was, I really was. Yeah, 926 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,239 Speaker 1: told me that, Coach Mac. It is always good when 927 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,040 Speaker 1: you headlined the show, well, the Mac and three OTP. 928 00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,799 Speaker 1: I've done a lot of things in my life, but 929 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: being the headliner of Mac and three way at the 930 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,200 Speaker 1: top of the man, I thought you were going to say, 931 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:25,880 Speaker 1: I've done a lot of things in my life and 932 00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:30,319 Speaker 1: this is one of for the great Jim White, for 933 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,280 Speaker 1: Amy Wells, and for Titans Radio's head coach Dave McGinnis. 934 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,040 Speaker 1: Mike Keat says thanks for listening to the OTP.